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Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work. I have a question for you that I cannot post on the forums because there is not one for VPN Activator. I tried asking it by sending you a direct message but have not heard back. What files does it modify besides
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.RemoteAccessServers.plist
?
Thank you.

Question: I work in a factory/office environment with roughly three dozen computers and two dozen printers, many of which are community printers. We are running a combination of OSX versions, WinXP and Win7. When I turn AirPrint Activator on from my MAC, all of the printers are available, but I only want to see about three of them. Only a few of us have a need for AirPrint, specifically those of us on the factory floor that want to print off pictures of what we see and have them available by the time we get back to our offices. None of the printers I want to use are local printers, so I can’t scale down the number of printers that everyone is seeing. Am I missing something, or is that the only way to control what printers show up twice? I really don’t want to have all printers go through my computer and have everyone print through APA.

I am using Mountain Lion DP2, my printer is shared, but AirPrint Activator does not show it (the list is empty), I fix it when I disable the (In Advanced settings) “Only advertise locally shared printers”. I hope it help others.

Another Question, is there any way to disable colour printing for AirPrint Activator?

You are probably suffering from a bug that occur when one upgrade from Leopard, to Snow to Lion. For some reason the firewall won’t let aparedir work.
Unless it is because you have configured your firewall for stealth mode? This is also known to break AirPrintActivator.
The good news is that a new developer has jinxed the team an he is actively working on porting aparedir to native Xcode. This should help resolve this issue.

Same here….upgraded to Mountain Lion and AirPrint printer that used to show up in the List of Printers on iPad / iPhone no longer shows up. Are they working on an update to make it compatible with new MacOS>? thanks!
Oh yeah…also tried the setting: “Only advertise locally shared printers” to no avail.